Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.

If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.

Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.

As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.

We’re only five years apart, ” I said defiantly. “If you look at some of those dysfunctional vampyre relationships, we’re near normal.

To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.

And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.

The political system, folks, is rigged. It's a rigged, disgusting, dirty system.

There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it.

I find it highly amusing that Donald Trump talks about "Make America Great Again." He doesn't make a thing in America, except bankruptcies.

I'm not thrilled that I have a tramp stamp. When you see people bend over in their really low-cut jeans, I'm like, 'Oh... that's what I have.

For a surfer, it's never-ending. There's always some wave you want to surf.

I think photography is a universal language as far as storytelling goes, and I think that's what it's most successful at.

I try to make the set as relaxed and fun and stress-free as humanly possible, while still having control over things. It's usually tension that hurts a performance or makes it seem self-conscious.